It is particularly interesting to examine just how wrong The Smart People have been about President Trump’s trade policies. Because it is via his trade policies – that oh-so-many of the Smart People’s dumbnesses have come to further light.

Trump campaigned on how dumb The Smart People’s trade polices have for decades been. How damaging they have been to nigh every aspect of our economy.

Bad trade deals – begat bad jobs and wages outcomes. For decades.

The Smart People – operating upon their assumptions that their trade deals were great and Trump is stupid – made fun of Trump for all sorts of things Trump promised to improve.

“During a PBS town hall that aired Wednesday, Obama referenced Trump’s promise to bring back jobs to the United States when talking about manufacturing.

“‘Well, how exactly are you going to do that? What exactly are you going to do? There’s no answer to it,’ Obama said.

“’He just says, “Well, I’m going to negotiate a better deal.” Well, what, how exactly are you going to negotiate that? What magic wand do you have? And usually the answer is, he doesn’t have an answer.’”

As it turns out, Trump’s “magic wand” – is negotiating better deals. Just as he said. Which balance the favoritisms nigh every other nation on the planet had over us in The Smart People’s trade deals.

All of this across-the-board amazing economic news – flying directly in the face of the predictions of The Smart People.

Of course, Trump also used tariffs as a cudgel – to get other nations to the negotiating table. Which as we’ve already very much seen – has worked like a charm.

And if we’d stop and think about it for but a second, we’d realize we could cut taxes on US companies and citizens in all sorts of other places – to be replaced by tariffs on foreign companies and countries. Just as it used to be.

“Brazil currently dominates the world sugar market in almost all aspects. It is the world’s largest producer of sugar cane (and) the world’s largest exporter of sugar cane….

“The Brazilian government is also highly involved in its sugar-cane market….This action affects Brazilian producer prices for sugar cane, consumer prices for sugar and alcohol, and quantities both produced and consumed in Brazil.

“Further, it affects world prices for refined sugar….”

Indeed it does. There are more than 100 countries that export sugar. Brazil all by itself – controls half that market.

And Brazil does that – by mass subsidizing its sugar. To the tune of $4 billion per year.

Which means when they arrive on the global market – they can charge $4 billion per year less than everyone else.

Shocker – they control half the global market.

You can call this a whole lot of things. None of those things – is a free market.

This market mass manipulation – is exactly the type of awful trade deal to which The Smart People have for decades been subjecting us.

This market mass manipulation – is exactly the type of awful trade deal The Smart People have defended – while ridiculing Trump for wanting to change them.

In The Smart People v Trump – one side wants an actual, actually free market.